Timeline for What kind of apocalyptic event can be predicted years before it happens?
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| Nov 26, 2017 at 14:59 | vote | accept | Sanko | ||
| Jul 27, 2017 at 4:38 | comment | added | BlueWizard | The refugee crisis was already discussed in the 1990s but still everyone acts surprised. But this is no apocalypse happening on global scale. More line a "EU scale". | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 15:21 | answer | added | SRM | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | Nahshon paz | Vampires are only known to a selected few. Also that virus that turns everyone into a zombie (shhhh, don't tell anyone!) | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 12:16 | comment | added | Totumus Maximus | Can't you pick a random Dr Who episode and start from there? xD | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 11:34 | comment | added | user3224207 | According to some mythologies we are already living in end times. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 11:15 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | Arthur C. Clarke, in Songs of a Distant Earth, posits that the Solar Neutrino Problem is due to a fundamental problem with the Sun that will lead to it exploding some 1000 years from now. Humanity has clear data, plenty of warning and no way to prevent it. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 10:19 | comment | added | Baldrickk | @Holger how close? We've had sizeable asteroids pass closer than the moon in recent years, and most people probably don't even know. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 7:57 | answer | added | Maciej | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 12:55 | comment | added | user28547 | This predicted apocalyptic event sounds a lot like the one depicted in National Geographics dramatized documentary titled Evacuate earth, in which a neutron star on a collision course with the solar system is detected 75 years in advance (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuate_Earth) | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 12:41 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Many observers have suggested that the US Midwest, from roughly Arkansas up to the Great Lakes, is "due" for a massive earthquake (or several). | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 9:53 | answer | added | Memetican | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 5:02 | comment | added | foobarbecue | Read the beginning of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, if you haven't already. The scenario fits your requirements pretty well. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 3:21 | answer | added | Rodrigo A. Pérez | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | WernerCD | With better technology we should be able to predict the erruption of the Yellowstone Super Volcano... and the subsequent destruction of the US. | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 18:27 | answer | added | jorfus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 13:53 | answer | added | Moschops | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 2:16 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 20:52 | answer | added | Jammin4CO | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 20:14 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @Zaibis, The Sun will end up as a white dwarf, but only after it has been a red giant. The question of whether or not it will be "giant" enough to engulf the Earth is still open for debate, but even if it does not engulf the Earth, it still will incinerate everything on the Earth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant#The_Sun_as_a_red_giant | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Rob Watts | Very similar to worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18228/… | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | Maxim | Global Warming :) | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 15:38 | comment | added | Zaibis | @NoahSpurrier: Are you sure about that? I read times ago, our sun is at the border and it could theoretically go supernova. unlikely but not impossible. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 14:28 | answer | added | Josh King | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 14:19 | answer | added | Werrf | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 13:33 | answer | added | Reed | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 12:56 | comment | added | Noah Spurrier | Rekesoft, the Sun is too small to go Nova. It will end up as a white dwarf. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 12:51 | comment | added | R.Joshi | Andromeda collision/merger with milky way? | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 12:41 | answer | added | a4android | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 9:45 | answer | added | MonicaEmberley | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 9:37 | answer | added | Zaibis | timeline score: 35 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 8:02 | answer | added | Alexander | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | Holger | The path of an asteroid can be predicted with enough precision to count. If the asteroid is large enough, it doesn’t need to collide to cause an apocalyptic event, a close passing by is enough. And the larger it is, the easier it’s discovery will be… | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 7:32 | comment | added | Karthik T | See the book Nightfall. Also the asteroid apophis was predicted to maybe hit the earth in the 2030s which makes it close to 20 years. It wasnt certain though. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 7:09 | answer | added | Rekesoft | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 7:00 | comment | added | Rekesoft | The sun is predicted to go nova in a few billion years. That's quite an advanced prediction. :D It's very well known, though. ;) | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 3:41 | comment | added | SpectralFlame | Exit Mundi has list of sorts for how the human race as we know it will disappear, but some aren't scientifically based and others have been ruled out (It's a pretty old website). Each scenario isn't particularly detailed, but it could be a nice starting point. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 3:12 | comment | added | can-ned_food | “accidentally”? Could you use a different word, perhaps? That, or choose a different criteria. Accidentally implies that someone learned of it while they were looking for something else — and possibly that they didn't even notice it first, but that someone else, with access to the info, did. The correlation with a “selected few” is largely circumstantial, methinks. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 0:08 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 51 | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 23:59 | history | edited | Alexander |
Question is specifically asking for a "scientific prediction"
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 23:46 | answer | added | CaM | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 23:45 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | “Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.” - Hari Sheldon | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 23:34 | history | asked | Sanko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |